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Suzuki Kiitsu
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Suzuki Kiitsu

Japanese, 1796-1858
BiographyJapanese painter, poet and illustrator. The last master of the Rinpa school of decorative painting.

Suzuki Kiitsu was a prominent late Edo period painter in the Rinpa style, a student and stylistic successor of Sakai Hôitsu.

Kiitsu was originally trained as a dyer of textiles, but later came to study painting under Sakai Hôitsu, and collaborated with Hôitsu on a number of projects. These included the Kôrin hyakuzu ("One Hundred Pictures by Kôrin"), a woodblock-printed book collecting line-drawing reproductions of compositions by Ogata Kôrin (d. 1716), a painter of a few generations prior, after whom the Rinpa style took its name.

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